Letter to the Editor: Pray churches are spared from further violence

on November 14, 2017

The worst thing that can happen when you go to church has happened again at a Texas church, where a misguided person committed an act of domestic terrorism, opening firing on a congregation where 26 people lost their lives. The world is growing progressively worse as Scripture warns “in the last days there will be perilous times.”

As a pastor I want people who worship with us to feel safe and loved by God and to know the time they invest in the service will bless them, their families and the community. Sandy Hook was not the beginning nor will it be the end of these senseless acts of violence.

Changing gun laws is not the answer because it’s impossible to legislate morality. What’s needed is a change of heart through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray for the families who lost loved ones and speak the peace of God on them during their time of grief, sorrow and loss. We, like Jews who say never again to the Holocaust, hope and pray no church service anywhere in the future is interrupted by gunfire.